Interesting. Thank you for your well-written response.
For traffic offenses (and, it seems in my personal experience, only traffic offenses) in the US, there is such a thing as a "warning." It seems to be very similar in concept to a caution.
We have verbal warnings (likely not recorded at all) and written warnings (which seem to expire, eventually, but will be retained in a database).
But in the US, traffic offenses aren't generally real crimes anyway: You've got to fuck up really badly, on a fairly regular basis, to ever see an ounce of real (non-monetary) punishment for a traffic offense...and even then, "punishment" is generally just license restrictions or temporary suspension.
For non-traffic stuff, we don't seem to do anything like that at all: Either you're charged with a crime, or not. If it's a minor offense, and not worth properly prosecuting, you'll just get a stern talking-to from an officer at that time. AFAICT, this is not recorded in any easily-retrievable form, except perhaps in the memory of the officer(s). An arrest is not made in this case (why would someone be arrested unless they're likely to be actually charged with something?).
As a practical matter, the general scheme of things sounds like it is rather similar on the UK side of the pond, though perhaps your friends on the other side of the Atlantic have better record-keeping.:)
Again, though: Thanks for clearing that up. It's always amazing what a language barrier English can be . . .
I hate CFLs. I use them, anyway, in many areas of the house because they are cheaper to run.
However, the one place that I do not have them -at all- is in my kitchen, or anyplace else where prepared food is handled, because I can't stand the way it makes my food look.
I have learned to treat the phone like it is a PC, which also happens to run Linux all on its own.
It is perfectly capable of managing itself in solitude. Upgrades happen on the phone, without a PC. Goofing off with custom firmware happens on the phone. Software downloads happen on the phone, without a PC. Transferring any data to/from other devices happens with Dropbox. Backing up and restoring a bunch of applications (ala switching handsets) happens on the phone, sometimes with help of Dropbox, but never with the help of a local PC.
And so on, and so forth. The only thing my phone (an original Droid) does use my PC for is because that's where I run my Subsonic server, but all of that happens over-the-air too.
I do not recall the last time I plugged the phone into a computer, aside from charging it over USB from my laptop when out of town.
What difference does it make what OS a PC happens to be running? Modern handsets are perfectly capable of being standalone devices.
I appreciate your help in this matter. I had no idea that people could be so easily offended by arbitrary words, but I'll be keen to choose the most offensive names I can in the future. (It's open source, so I don't give a fuck if you like the name or not -- it's a software project that anyone else is free to ignore, not a marketing class.)
In the freshwater world, I've seen oscars exhibit the same behavior: Grab snail by fleshy portion, and begin bashing it into things until it yields a tasty treat.
I've had a few different oscars over the years, and they were all similarly adept.
If your plant is sited near a massive body of cool water, why wouldn't you use it to cool off your plant?
Because the interface for that relatively cool body of water can become readily clogged with jellyfish and/or zebra mussels, as has actually happened in the really real world?
Did you have an actual retort or vindication for the concept, AC, or are you just restating what I already declared as being obvious?
IANANE (I Am Not A Nuclear Engineer), but why is raw sea water being used for cooling water, where it can be blocked by jellyfish?
Or raw lake water, for that matter? ISTR a similar almost-problem at the Davis Besse reactor in Ohio from the (invading) zebra mussel trying to plug things up.
Certainly both sea water and lake water are cheap and plentiful, but if using them allows living creatures to foul the works and cause actual problems (instead of simply costing more money) is it really worth the convenience?
A Zoltrix Nightingale sound card with an optional optical IO module (about $25 for the set, a decade or so ago) worked fine as an SCMS stripper. It really was a lousy analog sound card, but it did a good job of handling S/PDIF accurately, and had a hardware digital loopback function which specifically supported SCMS stripping.
There were a few other CMI 8738-based cards back then which could behave similarly.
But it really wasn't so important, anyway: You always get generational loss when treating Minidisc players as standalone audio devices, whether connected with S/PDIF or analog. Making bit-accurate copies with MD gear is fail.
About as long as I'd survive swimming in any other pool of other non-toxic stuff with a similar viscosity, I'd imagine.
It sounds gross and unhealthful, but really: There are people with occupations that expose them to others' shit every day, from nurse aids to sewer workers. I'm not talking about an occupational habit, but just a few laps across the pool, perhaps with a careful back-stroke...
Unbroken skin is pretty good at insulating one's innards from the shit around us every day, and it's not much different if that is shit, literally. (Having raised kids, puppies, cats, lizards, and birds, I'm pretty familiar with shit.)
If XMPP and its XML gobblydegook aren't the "wave" of the future, then what protocol should/must win out from a technical perspective? Of course, I keep in mind that the best doesn't necessarily always win out, but for kicks and giggles...
I don't have much important ("secret") data anywhere, at all, and that which I do have is reasonably well-encrypted on Dropbox. It's just fine there.
I worry more about losing my wallet than losing my stuff on Dropbox and I'm not losing any sleep over that possibility, either.
Everything else? Meh. If you want to read the results of my own little personal research projects, or awe at my collection of strange Windows and MS-DOS tools that I find indispensable (but which accomplish things that I find unnecessary under *nix), or my collection of PDF hardware manuals, or my shopping list, or my miniscule collection of self-recorded MP3s, go for it.
I just don't care. For my purposes, I strongly prefer this data to be widely available wherever I am, using whatever device I happen to have available, instead of hidden behind the specifics and complexities of a Truecrypt volume.
Meanwhile, Dropbox is not free, except as an advertising pitch (see, for example, my own.sig). Their goal is to produce actual sales of large(ish) quantities of online storage, and "giving away" small amounts of storage to anyone who asks is nothing but a marketing tactic to increase visibility.
To be clear, I'm perfectly OK with the concept. But let's call a spade a space, shall we?
I'm blinded (blighted?) by my narrow view of the world because I'm just a stupid 'Merkin, but over here someone is either arrested or not. They are charged with a crime or not. An arrest is not a "criminal record," and being charged with a crime is always something that eventually goes before a judge unless it gets dropped beforehand.
In the future, please make sure to post all of your bombs at geocaching.org. We realize this is an inconvenience, but it has bee brought to our attention (thanks, GooberToo) that simply posting the location of the bomb will dramatically increase the chances of it successfully detonating as planned.
Go to a Wal-Mart with $3, and you can leave with a pre-paid Visa.
In my experience, it denies charges immediately when the balance in the account can't cover it, while still keeping records of each declined transaction. (I did somehow manage to get one $.42 in the red once, but meh: There's also no overdraft fee.)
How many days could you take a shit in your living room until you could no longer tolerate it? I doubt any amount of evolutionary pressure could enable you to swim in a diarrhea swimming pool.
Perhaps not evolutionary pressure, but I for one would be perfectly happy to swim some laps in a diarrhea swimming pool for the correct amount of monetary pressure.
Which leads to an interesting philosophical question: Does this mean that I am better-adapted than yeast, or does it mean the opposite?
The "beer" that is marketed using advertising that is as dumb and pandering as GoDaddy hardly even qualifies as beer, except perhaps in the legal sense of the term.
Good beer does not typically resort to such tactics. It is often scarcely advertised at all.
From the practical aspect: My U-Verse DVR had a not-very-special 2.5" drive in it, and was able to record four things at once while replaying a fifth in my not-special configuration at home. (I believe it can actually do more than that with multiple receivers networked to it, but I just had the single DVR box.)
That said, in the interest of pedantry: Unlike a striped RAID 0, a RAID 1 array of n+1 disks could conceivably perform as a single disk with multiple heads, since a RAID 1 of n+1 has n+1 worth of independent head stacks, all reading identical data. (Also in the interest of pedantry, n is 1 or greater, since otherwise it is perfectly possible to create a RAID 1 consisting of a single disk with none of this potential, even though it is neither redundant nor an array.)
I don't personally know of an implementation that takes advantage of this mode of operation (in fact, ISTR discussion on the Linux md driver that specifically said that there were no plans to do so). Write performance would still be (best case) identical to that of a single head disk, but the potential gain for read performance is obvious.
And in the interest of history, plus a being at least orthogonally related to TFS: I have a few IBM 9ES 7200RPM SCSI drives on a shelf, still. I distinctly recall a bit of verbiage describing the availability of different firmwares for these drives, which would optimize the caching algorithm for differing numbers of threads: For example, firmware n.2 for two threads, n.4 for four, et cetera.
I never explored the idea of looking into it further because the closing sentence of "Please contact your IBM sales representative for more information" was rather off-putting, and sounded expensive. Besides, the drives were very able to keep up with every combination of seemingly-abusive realtime tasks I could shove at them when I was using them without any adjustment -- those fuckers were awesome back then. (Why fix it if it ain't broke?;)
I remember being particularly enthralled that video when I was around 10 or 11. I went on to find and read the book, learned a lot, and enjoyed the hell out of it.
I am unfortunate to have had an large (13") oscar in a tank during a flood in the wintertime. As a preventative measure, the gas company turned off the gas to our house, and thus the heat, and things got very cold. (There was a rag frozen to the floor in the kitchen, and a river frozen in-place just outside where the street normally would be.)
It screwed up that fish pretty bad. He was nose-up in the tank for about two weeks. Somehow, he recovered and was able to swim normally, but was never quite the same.
Having seen this, I'll not be freezing fish as a "humane" way of putting them down. That very cold tropical fish was very, very unhappy, and very, very big: It would take a long time, even with the best of efforts, to freeze it with household means. And that's a long time for a pet to be unhappy.
Having seen what I've seen, I'll sooner pay someone unattached to liberate its head with a well-honed knife than intentionally freeze one to death. Hell, for that matter, a more humane death for a fish would be to carry it outside in a container of water, pour it onto the sidewalk, and crush it with a brick.
The only thing "humane" about freezing a fish is that the humans involved think it is painless because it is slow. (It is only one of those things.)
Sure they do. Mostly, abuse of aquarium fish comes from overfeeding, overcrowding, poor filtration, insufficient maintenance, poor/improper/zero cleaning habits, and ignorance.
That said: I like fish. I think they are very tasty. I've also kept them as pets, and grown fond of some (Oscars are particularly endearing). And I'm glad that I don't live in California, so I don't have to put up with that strange nanny-state.
Seriously: They're just fish/cats/lizards/birds/dogs/arachnids/whatever. It's not like they're humans, which anyone who is both able and so-equipped is free to make whenever they have an opportunity...
The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are tenured; they don't care if they look like 'the good guys' or not. They don't have to compete with anyone else to keep their jobs for the rest of their useful lives, so there's simply no impetus to keep other people happy.
This is a good thing: It is, perhaps, the least political position of power in the justice system.
I look forward to seeing what they have to say about this case.
that's an Ubuntu problem, not a "Linux" problem. There are Linux distros that are accessibility-friendly. Pure, raw, actual Linux doesn't really have a gui anyway.
But I thought Ubuntu was supposed to be the most accessible of the Linux distributions!
(Note for the humor-impaired: Yes, it's a pun.)
(Note for the those that have a well-developed sense of humor: No, it's not a very good pun.)
(And a note from me, the pedant: Pure, raw, actual Linux doesn't have any sort of user interface at all!, except for perhaps the Magic SysRq key.)
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Your scenario assumes that the movies are not immediately ripped and returned.
I'm shocked to learn that there is somebody on Slashdot who is not doing this.
Interesting. Thank you for your well-written response.
For traffic offenses (and, it seems in my personal experience, only traffic offenses) in the US, there is such a thing as a "warning." It seems to be very similar in concept to a caution.
We have verbal warnings (likely not recorded at all) and written warnings (which seem to expire, eventually, but will be retained in a database).
But in the US, traffic offenses aren't generally real crimes anyway: You've got to fuck up really badly, on a fairly regular basis, to ever see an ounce of real (non-monetary) punishment for a traffic offense...and even then, "punishment" is generally just license restrictions or temporary suspension.
For non-traffic stuff, we don't seem to do anything like that at all: Either you're charged with a crime, or not. If it's a minor offense, and not worth properly prosecuting, you'll just get a stern talking-to from an officer at that time. AFAICT, this is not recorded in any easily-retrievable form, except perhaps in the memory of the officer(s). An arrest is not made in this case (why would someone be arrested unless they're likely to be actually charged with something?).
As a practical matter, the general scheme of things sounds like it is rather similar on the UK side of the pond, though perhaps your friends on the other side of the Atlantic have better record-keeping. :)
Again, though: Thanks for clearing that up. It's always amazing what a language barrier English can be . . .
That's strange.
I hate CFLs. I use them, anyway, in many areas of the house because they are cheaper to run.
However, the one place that I do not have them -at all- is in my kitchen, or anyplace else where prepared food is handled, because I can't stand the way it makes my food look.
Why all that Linuxy stuff on a separate computer?
I have learned to treat the phone like it is a PC, which also happens to run Linux all on its own.
It is perfectly capable of managing itself in solitude. Upgrades happen on the phone, without a PC. Goofing off with custom firmware happens on the phone. Software downloads happen on the phone, without a PC. Transferring any data to/from other devices happens with Dropbox. Backing up and restoring a bunch of applications (ala switching handsets) happens on the phone, sometimes with help of Dropbox, but never with the help of a local PC.
And so on, and so forth. The only thing my phone (an original Droid) does use my PC for is because that's where I run my Subsonic server, but all of that happens over-the-air too.
I do not recall the last time I plugged the phone into a computer, aside from charging it over USB from my laptop when out of town.
What difference does it make what OS a PC happens to be running? Modern handsets are perfectly capable of being standalone devices.
Thanks for the tip.
I'm off to go learn Python, now, just so I can create some stuff named as follows:
Rape
PrisonRape
DateRape
Throatfuck
Puker
GHB
Papabear
Cameltoe
I appreciate your help in this matter. I had no idea that people could be so easily offended by arbitrary words, but I'll be keen to choose the most offensive names I can in the future. (It's open source, so I don't give a fuck if you like the name or not -- it's a software project that anyone else is free to ignore, not a marketing class.)
Indeed.
In the freshwater world, I've seen oscars exhibit the same behavior: Grab snail by fleshy portion, and begin bashing it into things until it yields a tasty treat.
I've had a few different oscars over the years, and they were all similarly adept.
Because the interface for that relatively cool body of water can become readily clogged with jellyfish and/or zebra mussels, as has actually happened in the really real world?
Did you have an actual retort or vindication for the concept, AC, or are you just restating what I already declared as being obvious?
IANANE (I Am Not A Nuclear Engineer), but why is raw sea water being used for cooling water, where it can be blocked by jellyfish?
Or raw lake water, for that matter? ISTR a similar almost-problem at the Davis Besse reactor in Ohio from the (invading) zebra mussel trying to plug things up.
Certainly both sea water and lake water are cheap and plentiful, but if using them allows living creatures to foul the works and cause actual problems (instead of simply costing more money) is it really worth the convenience?
Indeed.
A Zoltrix Nightingale sound card with an optional optical IO module (about $25 for the set, a decade or so ago) worked fine as an SCMS stripper. It really was a lousy analog sound card, but it did a good job of handling S/PDIF accurately, and had a hardware digital loopback function which specifically supported SCMS stripping.
There were a few other CMI 8738-based cards back then which could behave similarly.
But it really wasn't so important, anyway: You always get generational loss when treating Minidisc players as standalone audio devices, whether connected with S/PDIF or analog. Making bit-accurate copies with MD gear is fail.
About as long as I'd survive swimming in any other pool of other non-toxic stuff with a similar viscosity, I'd imagine.
It sounds gross and unhealthful, but really: There are people with occupations that expose them to others' shit every day, from nurse aids to sewer workers. I'm not talking about an occupational habit, but just a few laps across the pool, perhaps with a careful back-stroke...
Unbroken skin is pretty good at insulating one's innards from the shit around us every day, and it's not much different if that is shit, literally. (Having raised kids, puppies, cats, lizards, and birds, I'm pretty familiar with shit.)
Shit happens.
How about Skype?
*ducks*
As a former WWIV sysop who has since been twirling around on Teh Intarwebs for almost two decades, I miss split-screen chat.
It's much more conversational.
This, exactly.
I don't have much important ("secret") data anywhere, at all, and that which I do have is reasonably well-encrypted on Dropbox. It's just fine there.
I worry more about losing my wallet than losing my stuff on Dropbox and I'm not losing any sleep over that possibility, either.
Everything else? Meh. If you want to read the results of my own little personal research projects, or awe at my collection of strange Windows and MS-DOS tools that I find indispensable (but which accomplish things that I find unnecessary under *nix), or my collection of PDF hardware manuals, or my shopping list, or my miniscule collection of self-recorded MP3s, go for it.
I just don't care. For my purposes, I strongly prefer this data to be widely available wherever I am, using whatever device I happen to have available, instead of hidden behind the specifics and complexities of a Truecrypt volume.
Meanwhile, Dropbox is not free, except as an advertising pitch (see, for example, my own .sig). Their goal is to produce actual sales of large(ish) quantities of online storage, and "giving away" small amounts of storage to anyone who asks is nothing but a marketing tactic to increase visibility.
To be clear, I'm perfectly OK with the concept. But let's call a spade a space, shall we?
WTF is a "caution"?
I'm blinded (blighted?) by my narrow view of the world because I'm just a stupid 'Merkin, but over here someone is either arrested or not. They are charged with a crime or not. An arrest is not a "criminal record," and being charged with a crime is always something that eventually goes before a judge unless it gets dropped beforehand.
How does this "caution" thing work?
Note to terrorists:
In the future, please make sure to post all of your bombs at geocaching.org. We realize this is an inconvenience, but it has bee brought to our attention (thanks, GooberToo) that simply posting the location of the bomb will dramatically increase the chances of it successfully detonating as planned.
Best wishes.
Go to a Wal-Mart with $3, and you can leave with a pre-paid Visa.
In my experience, it denies charges immediately when the balance in the account can't cover it, while still keeping records of each declined transaction. (I did somehow manage to get one $.42 in the red once, but meh: There's also no overdraft fee.)
(How you use this information is your problem.)
Perhaps not evolutionary pressure, but I for one would be perfectly happy to swim some laps in a diarrhea swimming pool for the correct amount of monetary pressure.
Which leads to an interesting philosophical question: Does this mean that I am better-adapted than yeast, or does it mean the opposite?
The "beer" that is marketed using advertising that is as dumb and pandering as GoDaddy hardly even qualifies as beer, except perhaps in the legal sense of the term.
Good beer does not typically resort to such tactics. It is often scarcely advertised at all.
Sweet! After all these years, finally someone has come up with a reason for something better than UDMA 133!
From the practical aspect: My U-Verse DVR had a not-very-special 2.5" drive in it, and was able to record four things at once while replaying a fifth in my not-special configuration at home. (I believe it can actually do more than that with multiple receivers networked to it, but I just had the single DVR box.)
That said, in the interest of pedantry: Unlike a striped RAID 0, a RAID 1 array of n+1 disks could conceivably perform as a single disk with multiple heads, since a RAID 1 of n+1 has n+1 worth of independent head stacks, all reading identical data. (Also in the interest of pedantry, n is 1 or greater, since otherwise it is perfectly possible to create a RAID 1 consisting of a single disk with none of this potential, even though it is neither redundant nor an array.)
I don't personally know of an implementation that takes advantage of this mode of operation (in fact, ISTR discussion on the Linux md driver that specifically said that there were no plans to do so). Write performance would still be (best case) identical to that of a single head disk, but the potential gain for read performance is obvious.
And in the interest of history, plus a being at least orthogonally related to TFS: I have a few IBM 9ES 7200RPM SCSI drives on a shelf, still. I distinctly recall a bit of verbiage describing the availability of different firmwares for these drives, which would optimize the caching algorithm for differing numbers of threads: For example, firmware n.2 for two threads, n.4 for four, et cetera.
I never explored the idea of looking into it further because the closing sentence of "Please contact your IBM sales representative for more information" was rather off-putting, and sounded expensive. Besides, the drives were very able to keep up with every combination of seemingly-abusive realtime tasks I could shove at them when I was using them without any adjustment -- those fuckers were awesome back then. (Why fix it if it ain't broke? ;)
Also check out the Nova special, The KGB, the Computer, and Me , which appears to be on Youtube for the moment. It stars our friend Mr. Stoll.
I remember being particularly enthralled that video when I was around 10 or 11. I went on to find and read the book, learned a lot, and enjoyed the hell out of it.
Oscars are hard to kill.
I am unfortunate to have had an large (13") oscar in a tank during a flood in the wintertime. As a preventative measure, the gas company turned off the gas to our house, and thus the heat, and things got very cold. (There was a rag frozen to the floor in the kitchen, and a river frozen in-place just outside where the street normally would be.)
It screwed up that fish pretty bad. He was nose-up in the tank for about two weeks. Somehow, he recovered and was able to swim normally, but was never quite the same.
Having seen this, I'll not be freezing fish as a "humane" way of putting them down. That very cold tropical fish was very, very unhappy, and very, very big: It would take a long time, even with the best of efforts, to freeze it with household means. And that's a long time for a pet to be unhappy.
Having seen what I've seen, I'll sooner pay someone unattached to liberate its head with a well-honed knife than intentionally freeze one to death. Hell, for that matter, a more humane death for a fish would be to carry it outside in a container of water, pour it onto the sidewalk, and crush it with a brick.
The only thing "humane" about freezing a fish is that the humans involved think it is painless because it is slow. (It is only one of those things.)
Sure they do. Mostly, abuse of aquarium fish comes from overfeeding, overcrowding, poor filtration, insufficient maintenance, poor/improper/zero cleaning habits, and ignorance.
That said: I like fish. I think they are very tasty. I've also kept them as pets, and grown fond of some (Oscars are particularly endearing). And I'm glad that I don't live in California, so I don't have to put up with that strange nanny-state.
Seriously: They're just fish/cats/lizards/birds/dogs/arachnids/whatever. It's not like they're humans, which anyone who is both able and so-equipped is free to make whenever they have an opportunity...
The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are tenured; they don't care if they look like 'the good guys' or not. They don't have to compete with anyone else to keep their jobs for the rest of their useful lives, so there's simply no impetus to keep other people happy.
This is a good thing: It is, perhaps, the least political position of power in the justice system.
I look forward to seeing what they have to say about this case.
But I thought Ubuntu was supposed to be the most accessible of the Linux distributions!
(Note for the humor-impaired: Yes, it's a pun.)
(Note for the those that have a well-developed sense of humor: No, it's not a very good pun.)
(And a note from me, the pedant: Pure, raw, actual Linux doesn't have any sort of user interface at all!, except for perhaps the Magic SysRq key.)